The sudden change of venue for The One’s acceptance speech tonight – from the 70,000-seat Bank of America stadium to 20-odd-thousand seat Time-Warner Cable Arena – due to a 20% chance of rain, maybe, has led to one major problem for the Dems. Because while the arena is a fine facility (and, unlike BOA, won’t be over 2/3 empty), with…:
…[s]tate delegate sections already in place. TV sky booths for the anchors. Big impressive stage. Flashy video backdrop.
But balloons? Thousands of red, white and blue balloons up in the ceiling, ready to come cascading down for the finish that America expects?
Nope. Sigh.
The Republicans had balloons aplenty, last week in Tampa, Fla.
Too late for the Democrats. But their spirits are still high. Stay tuned. Organizers are scrambling to come up with another festive way to punctuate the end of the convention.
It’s a pity, really – all that hot air could have been recycled.
But we’re all about the help, here. So I’m going to throw this open for the audience: since the Dems can’t get balloons together by tonight, what should they drop instead?
Maybe he could get Helicopter Ben to fly over the stadium do drop $100 bills? Quantitative Easing IV (or is it V now, I lost count).
Gubmint cheese. And condoms.
Not a 20% chance of rain actually; from weather.com for Charlotte:
Showers and thunderstorms developing around 4pm. Partly cloudy with temperatures steady or falling to near 78F. Winds WSW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 85%
You have such persistent problems with misrepresenting facts, both large and small. Too bad there wasn’t some way to drop those from the GOP convention ceiling to compensate for the errors made at the podium.
Confetti and streamers would work just fine, the way they used to be used for big parades.. Maybe they’ll solve the balloon problem in time.
A larger problem is the indoor facility won’t hold all of the people who want to attend. One thing they won’t have to make room for is a rambling and incoherent speech with an empty chair.
Still, it beats canceling, like the GOP did, rescheduling everything because of the same weather system.
Acme Anvils.
I would suggest dropping BS, but they’ve been doing that all along. It’s a wonder they don’t run out…one of the great mysteries of life, I guess.
seeuentee;dr
Dog Gone, where is your homework?
BTW, when Obama took office gas was $1.95 a gallon.
They could drop all of the DG comments that have been shredded on this blog, but that would require going back to BOA – and the EPA would object.
DG:
Take it up with the Weather Channel. As this is written – in the mid-afternoon, central time – it’s 0%.
No, DG, it’s you who’s got the persistent problem. You get a factoid in your head, you decide that it is “the truth”, and that’s apparently that. You are impermeable to any actual fact, reason or logic to the contrary – to say nothing of the cognitive dissonance that goes hand in hand with a field like politics, which is much more rhetoric than empiricism anyway – but you make up for it with unearned condescension.
BTW, I’m STILL waiting for exactly how Minnesota’s stand your ground bill was “Crap Legislation”. Feel free to pony up.
Careful, KRod – a “fact-check” might show that it was really $1,97.
In the world of the “fact-checker”, that would invalidate your entire premise.
On NPR this morning they mentioned the change of venue due to “chance of rain”, no mention that the DNC has been emptying out shelters and trying to bring in buses from out of state to fill Bank of America with Democrat drones.
NPR did say, however, that the change to a smaller arena meant that many, many people who had hoped to see the nomination would be disappointed.
More use of my tax dollars for pro-Obama propaganda.
DG,
Trying to play “fact checker” only works if you check the right facts – in other words, compare apples to apples.
You are citing the Weather.com (Weather Channel) forecast for the day. During which there may well be an 85% chance of rain. The clip you pasted itself says the chances peak around 4PM, and dry out sharply thereafter to a 0% by the time of BHO’s speech.
Yet again, you have undertaken to condescend without doing your homework.
It’s getting to be a pattern.
Do you even notice?
The National Whatever Service has announced a DG warning for the Twin Cities metro area. Readers are advised to watch out for baked wind, low-lying fact checks and high levels of thunderous verbiage. The National Whatever Service is also predicting rising blood pressure with conditions ranging from mostly to completely cloudy and a 98% chance of bullshit.
Mitch, be sure to turn the TV on and the volume down between 7 and 8, Scarlett Johansson is speaking. I know you’ll want to watch (but not listen – it would spoil the moment).
That empty chair speech really struck a nerve, didn’t it?
Just for giggles, here’s the Terminal Area Forecast from the National Weather Service for Charlotte airport.
KCLT 062057Z 0621/0718 22006KT P6SM VCSH SCT030 BKN060
TEMPO 0621/0623 4SM TSRA BKN035CB
FM070000 20003KT P6SM BKN120
FM070800 00000KT 5SM BR SCT250
FM071300 36004KT P6SM FEW250
Thunderstorms and rain from 2100 to 2300 Grenwich time, which is 4 hours ahead of Charlotte, so the rain should fall between 1700 and 1900 local time. That’s 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., if you believe the weather service.
I can see why they moved the gala. Wouldn’t want video of Democrat speakers in the rain. Most of us already think they’re all wet.
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Mitch, the Melissa Harris-Perry meltdown video still autoplays, and holy mother of Gaia is it annoying.
How about dropping anvils or bricks, products of union thuggish labor?
The labor dept reported the Obama Great Recession is worsening.
23% fewer jobs than expected.
For each person that found a job almost 4 quit looking for work!!
Dog Gone, where is your homework? Did Hope and Change eat it? Coward!
DG,
Apparently it was not raining during Obama’s speech last night.
Do tell – did “The Daily Kos” or “ThnkProgress” say that it was?
Another note just to touch on kinlaw’s comment regarding the Melissa Harris-Perry meltdown….
I read somewhere that CNN and MSNBC are merging into one huge “news” organization. They adopted a new tagline, similar to Fox’s “Fair & Balanced”. Their’s is “Unhinged & Delusional”. They are also recruiting Jennifer Granholm and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
However, they will be requiring the former MI Governor, and Soledad O’Brien to adopt hyphenated last names.
Anderson Cooper will just be referred to as Anderson-Cooper.